To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee :: To Kill a Mockingbird Essays

To vote down A mockingbirdIve n constantly been to Alabama, but novelist Harper lee made me feel as if I had been there in the long, unrecorded summer of 1935, when a lawyer named Atticus Finch decided to defend an detached black valet accused of a horrible crime. The story of how the unscathed town reacted to the trial is told by the lawyers daughter, outlook, who remembers exactly what it was like to be viii years old in 1935, in Macomb, Alabama.Scout is the reason I loved this book, because her voice rings so clear and true. Not wholly does she make me see the things she sees, she makes me feel the things she feels. Theres a lot more spillage on than honorable the trial, and Scout tells you all close it. A spell called Boo Radley lives next door. Very few people hold ever seen Boo, but Scout and her friends have a lot of fun recounting scary stories about him. The mystery about Boo Radley is just unrivaled of the reasons you want to keep turning the pages to find out what happens in To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout and her big brother, Jem, run wild and play games and have a great date while their father is busy with the trial. mavin of their friends is a strange boy called Dill. Actually Dill isnt really so strange once you get to know him. He says things like Im littler but Im old, which is funny but also pretty sad, because some of the time Dill acts more like a little old man than a s nonethelessyearold boy.To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with interesting components like Dill, and Scout makes them all seem just as real as the people in your own hometown. Heres how Scout describes Miss Caroline, who wore a redstriped dress She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop.Dill, Boo, and Jem are all fascinating, but the most important character in the book is Scouts father, Atticus Finch. You get the idea that Scout is constitution the story down because she wants the world to know what a good man her dad was, and how hard he tried to do th e right thing, even though the deck was stacked against him. The larger theme of the story is about racial intolerance, but Scout never tries to make it a lesson, its scarce part of the world she describes.